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August 30, 2005
Berry-AMA Book Prize Nominations
The annual Berry-AMA Book Prize for the best book in marketing recognizes innovative ideas and impact on marketing and related fields. It is named in honor of the generous contributions of Leonard L. Berry, distinguished author and professor, and his wife Nancy F. Berry to the American Marketing Association (AMA) Foundation.
The 2005 Berry/AMA Book Prize finalists are:
Accountable Marketing : The Economics of Data-Driven Marketing
Effective Advertising : Understanding When, How, and Why Advertising Works (Marketing for a New Century)
Marketing and the Bottom Line, Second Edition
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Simply Better: Winning and Keeping Customers by Delivering What Matters Most
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August 22, 2005
Jobs with a view of mountains
Tenure-track positions in social psychology are available at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
The Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder, invites applications for a tenure-track position in social psychology beginning August 2006. The department anticipates hiring at the assistant professor level. The University of Colorado, Boulder, is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment. In that spirit, applications at all levels will be considered from those who would strengthen the department’s diversity.
Candidates in any area of social psychology will be considered. In particular, we are interested in those who can contribute to the existing strengths of the program; these include social psychological approaches to health, judgment and decision making, social neuroscience, and social cognition. Special consideration will be given to candidates who can also contribute to our strengths in statistics and research methods. The successful candidate will be expected to teach at the graduate and undergraduate levels, to supervise undergraduate and graduate students in research, and to maintain an active research program. Salary is competitive and dependent upon experience.
All applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests, a statement of undergraduate and graduate teaching interests, representative research papers, and at least three letters of recommendation to: Charles M. Judd, Chair, Social Search Committee, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, 345 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0345. We will begin reviewing applications November 15, 2005 and will continue to review applications until the position is filled.
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August 16, 2005
Fooled by Randomness
FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS: THE HIDDEN ROLE OF CHANCE IN THE MARKETS AND IN LIFE
Nassim Nicholas Taleb does it all, he's a successful trader, author, and academic. His book Fooled by Randomness is soon to come out in paperback, and draws on sources from Finance to Literature to address the role of chance in life.
FLAP:
"The book is populated with an array of characters, some of whom have grasped, in their own way, the significance of chance: Yogi Berra, the baseball legend; Karl Popper, the philosopher knowledge; Solon, the Ancient World’s wisest man; the modern financier George Soros; and the Greek voyager Ulysses. In addition we meet the fictional Nero, who seems to understand the role of randomness in his life, but who also falls victim to his own superstitious foolishness. But the most recognizable character of all remains unnamed: the lucky fool in the right place at the right time. The embodiment of the survival of the least fit. Such individuals attract devoted followers who believe in their guru's insights and methods. But no one can replicate what is obtained through chance. A monkey banging on the keyboard may eventually produce the Iliad, but would you sign him to write the sequel?"
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Academic & Teaching:
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a fellow in Mathematics in Finance and an adjunct Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. Taleb is also a visiting Professor of Risk Management at the Université Paris-Dauphine.
Selected Publications:
(2004). "Blowup" versus "Bleed": What Does Empirical Psychology Say About the Preference For Negative Skewness? Journal of Behavioral Finance, 5, 1.
(2005). Roots of Unfairness. Journal of the International Comparative Literature Association: Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire 21.41-42.
(2005). On the Risk of the Unforecastable and its Perception", in Preventing Genocide: A Handbook for Foreign Policy Professionals, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Publications.
Quote:
"My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know...." (You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment and make a living out of the epistemic arrogance of the human race).
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Home Page
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August 09, 2005
AMA interviews revisited
AMA MARKETING JOB MARKET INTERVIEWS: ONE YEAR LATER
Again, the AMA interviews, inspiration of this DSN piece, have come and gone for another year. To the students on the market: How was your experience? What worked and what didn't work? Mail your comments (anonymous or nonymous, just let me know) to dan at dangoldstein dot com and we will publish tips for next year here.
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